| Description | My dear Son,
I receiv'd yours of the 15th and will make the enquiries you mention as soon as Mr. Matthews returns from Croyden.
Tell Mr. Lawson I thank him for his letter and I agree with his proposals about the pieces of 35 in the lb. being the size of Wilkinson, and as to those of 70 in the lb. and those of 140, they being the same weights of the lats India coin, they must be about the same diameter as the last, and which may be found by the old dies. I dare not attempt to strike the pieces in collers, as it's necessary we should strike 250 per minute, or 300, untill the order is compleated, and I fear collers will delay us.
In my last letter to Mr. Lawson I mentioned my opineon of the house inside door, which was to make it a double of folding door, and the know or handle of it will then be in the middle, and when one is open'd the other will open of it self, by means of a machine which is made by Standley in Bull Street; he is Blockley's successor.
Pray give my love to your sister, with thanks for her kind wishes. I have not time to write to her, as I am busy packing up and propose to set out tomorrow morning and sleep at Oxford on Tuesday night and find my way some how to Birmingham on Wednesday.
As our horses have been ill and the roads bad, I don't think it will be oeconomy to send them to meet me at Hockley as usual.
I wish Peter could have stay'd at Soho a few weeks, for I shall want assistance and must have Z. W. A grate must be put in the packing room at the Mint.
There are many other things which occur, but as I hope to be at home on Wednesday (haveing already taken my place in the Oxford coach) I will conclude with my kindest love to my daughter, my prayers for you both. Love to Miss Mynd, remaining ever, dear Matt, yours most affectionately,
M. B.
Since writing this letter I have receiv'd order to attend some gentlemen to morrow at eleven o'clock, and therefore I cannot be sure when I shall set out.
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